the words of chris stevens here. the republican chairman of the government committee here lookg into benghazi released the documents friday night. and i want to bring in the former undersecretary of political affairs at the state department, nick burns. nick, welcome. >> thank you. >> you were at the state department for more than ten years, knowing about these cables now, can you just take me inside the state department, you know, when you're hearing words like this, like security vacuum and you're getting these requests from an ambassador, what is the process like? how is it handled? >> well, brooke, i'm sure there will be lots of questions tonight about security post both president obama and governor romney. it is a very important issue. in the state department, of course, security for our diplomats, for our people overseas and more than 275 embassies and consulates, that's job one, that's the priority. it has been for second clinton a and her predecessors. we outside of government cannot possibly know all of the